Cicadas.(poem)(Brief Article)

From: The Christian Century | Date: August 11, 1999| Author: Hardy, Rob | Copyright information 
Slit down the back 
like a plastic change purse 
from which the cicada 
has withdrawn its body's glisten, 
the dry shape still clings 
to tree bark, pompeian, 
surprised by self-eruption, 
a mold into which one might pour 
molten insect. 
It rose in body like heat, 
its high-tension drone 
disembodied in the air: 
son...

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